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A Shortcut Back Through 1994

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

A retrospective of the entire year in sixty minutes, "A Shortcut through 1994" feature no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtapos...

The Origins of Zionism

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers

In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer

Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

Trying not to do damage: The Student Free Speech Movement with Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles

In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...

Bought by PRX Remix

Liz Cheney on Good Citizen

From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V

Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...

Tom Allman- "The Sheriff and Marijuana"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

StoryCorps: María de los Ángeles Vázquez and Rafael Cancel Vázquez

From: StoryCorps

María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...

Confederate Spies at the Canadian Border

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

Caption: John Y. Beall, Credit: Library of Congress

On this month’s episode of A New York Minute In History, hosts Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts uncover a system of Confederate spies, guerillas, an...

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

248: Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 2/7/2024

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks

From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...

Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin

In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

The Marshall Plan Remembered

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

In the aftermath of World War II, Europe lay in ruins. Cities were devastated, economies shattered, and the continent faced a crisis of unprecedent...

Plymouth Freeman and The Unfinished Revolution

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

On this episode, we explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and d...

Too Much of Nothing

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

Caption: Shane MacGowan, Credit: The Pogues

A Mockery Of Indo-China Eggplant Mix featuring Henry Kissinger, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, George Santos, Liz Cheney, JFK, Spencer Tracy, Monty ...

National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five

Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR

Inauguration Day

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Pomp, circumstance and 35 words can transform a person into a president.

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Victoria, TX - A Town Like Yours

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

Join host Eddie Robinson for a special edition of I SEE U, featuring award-winning director, Li Lu with her latest PBS docu-series, “A Town Called ...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, KUNM, and KICI Iowa City

254: Toward a More Perfect Union: Unleashing the Promise in Us All, 11/1/2023

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Caption: Angela Glover Blackwell, Credit: Alex Akamine

In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial de...

264: The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History, 10/18/2023

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...

War and Peace

From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish

Songs about war and peace

Bought by WLPR

Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

World in Progress 21/09/23

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

The First 9-11

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...

Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace

Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB

Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns

From: Lester Graham

Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain

2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU

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